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A HISTORIC SCENE.
A Thrilling Reproducion of the Atro-cious Mountain Meadow Massacre.
The great Forepaugh and wild west combined shows, which exhibit in El-mira on Friday, May 30th, on Maxwell avenue, brings the unwritten history of the far west to the door of civilization. There is nothing in history more thrilling than the Mountain Meadow massacre, and this is illustrated by Captain A. H. Bogardue, the world's champion shot, and scores of scouts, cowboys and Indians, in a way that vividly pictures the awful horrors of the scene. The Mountain Meadow massacre occurred in 1857, and the vic-tims were a band of emigrants on their way across the plains. They were am-bushed by a party of Indians and mor-mons under the command of John D. Lee, the chief of Brigham Young's infa-mous "destroying angels," and, though they fought desperately, they were out-numbered and, under promise of protec-tion, surrendered. Lee was false to his promise and the entire company, in-cluding 120 men, women and children, were massacred in cold blood. The mammoth quarter-mile hippodrome track gives abundant room for the repro-duction of this thrilling border drama, which is given with all the accessories necessary to make the performance life-like and complte. Adam Forepaugh, jr.'s $50,000 troop of trained bronchos; Blon-din, the equine aerialist; the trapeze horse, Eclipse, and & triple arenic exhi-bition are among the other features of this unapproachable big dual show.

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A HISTORIC SCENE.
A Thrilling Reproducion of the Atro-cious Mountain Meadow Massacre.
The great Forepaugh and wild west combined shows, which exhibit in El-mira on Friday, May 30th, on Maxwell avenue, brings the unwritten history of the far west to the door of civilization. There is nothing in history more thrilling than the Mountain Meadow massacre, and this is illustrated by Captain A. H. Bogardue, the world's champion shot, and scores of scouts, cowboys and Indians, in a way that vividly pictures the awful horrors of the scene. The Mountain Meadow massacre occurred in 1857, and the vic-tims were a band of emigrants on their way across the plains. They were am-bushed by a party of Indians and mor-mons under the command of John D. Lee, the chief of Brigham Young's infa-mous "destroying angels," and, though they fought desperately, they were out-numbered and, under promise of protec-tion, surrendered. Lee was false to his promise and the entire company, in-cluding 120 men, women and children, were massacred in cold blood. The mammoth quarter-mile hippodrome track gives abundant room for the repro-duction of this thrilling border drama, which is given with all the accessories necessary to make the performance life-like and complte. Adam Forepaugh, jr.'s $50,000 troop of trained bronchos; Blon-din, the equine aerialist; the trapeze horse, Eclipse, and & triple arenic exhi-bition are among the other features of this unapproachable big dual show.